Metallic bedstead.



No; "732,515. I PATENTED JUNE 30, 1903.. M. J. CASEY.

METALLIC BEDSTEAD.

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MARK J. oAsEY, on NEW RICHMOND, WISCONSIN.

METALLIC BEDSTEAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 732,515, dated June30, 1903.

Application filed September 22, 1902. Serial No. 124,309. (No model.)

. useful Improvements in Metallic Bedsteads;

and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has for its object to provide certain improvements. inmetallic bedsteads, and is particularly directed to the provision of animproved joint or device for connecting the side rails to thecorner-posts of the bedstead.

.To the above ends the invention consists of the novel devices andcombinations of devices hereinafter described, and defined in the claim.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein likecharacters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing one of the corner portions of aniron bedstead embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a simi lar view to Fig.1, but shows the spring-frame separated from the corner-post and itsrigidly-connected parts. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section on theline 50 00 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the rail-clamp removed from workingposition. Fig. 5 is a perspective view similar to Fig. 1, butillustrating a modified construction wherein independent side rails areemployed and illustrating the manner in which a bed-spring having aniron frame is applied in working position; and Fig. dis a view similarto Fig. 5, but illustratingthe arrangement wherein a bed-spring having awooden frame is applied in working position. Y

The. numeral 1 indicates one of thecornerposts of the bed, onto which,as is usual, is rigidly cast the corner-block 2. The corner- 'blocks 2are rigidly connected in pairs by transversely-extended angle-iron bars3, the said blocks being cast around the ends of the said bars. Eachblock 2 is also cast around an angle-iron stub-bar 4, which projectstherefrom at a right angle from the bar 3, preferably as best shown inFig. 2.

In Figs. 1, 2, and 3 the numeral fiindicates an ordinary woven-Wirebedstead, which is held by a rectangular metallic framework made up ofangle-iron side bars 6 and angleiron end bars 7, which bars are rivetedor otherwise rigidly secured at their ends, preferably as best shown inFig. 2.

It will be noted that the vertical flange of the stub-bar 4 extendsupward, while the vertical flange of the side bar 6 extends downward, sothat they are adapted to' overlap, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3.

In Figs. 1 to 3, inclusive, the side bar 6 of the bed-spring frame isused as a side rail of the bedstead, and the ends thereof which overlapwith the studbars 4 are rigidly clamped togetherby clannping devicesofnovel construction. This clamping device is in the form of anapproximately L-shaped head 8, 7 having at its ends inturned and grooveddetents or clamping-feet 9 and 10. At the corner of its inner angle thesaid clampinghead is provided with a fillet 11, which constitutes-acam-surface. A thumb-screw 12 works through the detent or clamping-foot10.

When the side bar of the spring-frame is applied'to the stub-bar 4, asabove described, I

and is made to afford side rails to the bedstead, the overlapped bars 6and 4 are adjustably but rigidly secured together by the clamping devicejust described, which device is applied as shown in Figs. 1 and 3,wherein it will be noted that the foot 9 thereof presses against the topof the bar 6, that the cam or fillet 11 thereof engages the corner ofthe stubbar 4, and that the set-screw 12 impinges against the inner edgeof the said stub-bar.

This being the case, it will be understood that by tightening theset-screw the bars 6 and 4 are drawn together in two directions. Morespecifically stated, the clampdraws thebars 4 and 6 together laterally,and'the cam 11 5 causes the clamp to draw said bars together and anindependent bed-rail or side bar 13 is employed. This bar or rail ispreferably of angle-iron, like the other bars described. In Fig. thesaid rails are shown as overlapped with the stub-rails 4 and securedthereto by the clamp device precisely in the same manner as is the railor bar 6 shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3. In Fig. 6, however, the rail 13 isturned upside down and placed with its inner angle receiving the outercorner-angle of the stub-bar 4. The clamp is applied very much as beforedescribed; but in this case, of course, the detents or clamping-feet 910 overlap the edges of both of the bars 4 and 6.

In Fig. 5 the bed-spring is indicated by the numeral 14, and itsangle-iron framework is indicated by the numerals and 16, which numeralsindicate, respectively, the side and end bars of said frame. These partsare indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 5, and it will be noted that theend bars 16 project beyond the side bars 15, so that their horizontalflanges rest on top of the stub-rails 4, or in some instances directlyupon the feet 10 of the clamp 8.

In Fig. 6 the bed-spring 17 is provided with an ordinary wooden frame 1819, and in this illustration the side rails 18 and the ends of the endbars 19 rest directly in the angle of the bed-rail 13, as clearly shownin said Fig. 6.

Figs. 1 to 4, inclusive, illustrate what may be designated as thepreferred form of my invention, since the side bars or rails of thebedspring frame are made to serve as bed-rails. This feature I considernovel, and it has two important advantages-to wit, that of economy andthat of rigid construction which follows from clamping the stub-rails 4to the side rails or bars of the said frame.

In all of the arrangements illustrated the longitudinal adjustmentbetween the stubrails 4 and the bars which constitute the side rails ofthe bed is very important, since the bedstead, in view of this feature,may be adjusted to closely fit the frame of the bedspring. Thedoubleacting clamp, already clearly described, constitutes anotherimportant feature of my invention.

From the foregoing description and statements made it will be understoodthat the device described is capable of considerable modificationswithin the scope of my invention.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates, is as follows:

In a bedstead, the combination with a corner-post 1, stub-bar 4 andcorner-block 2 rigid on said parts 1 and 4, and rigidly uniting thesame, of an angle-iron side rail overlapping the said stub-bar, and aclamping device involving the L-shaped head 8, with clampingfeet 9 and10, and fillet or cam-surface 11 in the angle thereof, and the set-screw12 working through said foot 10, the said parts operating substantiallyas described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MARK J. CASEY.

Witnesses:

HENRY MODERMOTT, ANDREW DENNEEN.

